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They will never be backed up, as many of the claims I see about ISML are.

It's somewhat understandable, of course. From a random person's point of view, we do not have captcha, registration, or any hint of stopping the multivoters. So what should we do? If we give proof that we do have ways stop them, then that would just be telling them how to bypass us next time, which is why we keep things a secret. But yes, people do try to cheat, and lots of them.

Considering I saw the system block a vote right in front of me (and as a computer scientist) I'll have to say that it's working pretty damn well at preventing multiple votes. Keep up the good work guys

The block was simple: I voted on my home pc and my sister tried to vote on her. She got blocked since we're on the same network connection (hence ip address).

Considering I saw the system block a vote right in front of me (and as a computer scientist) I'll have to say that it's working pretty damn well at preventing multiple votes. Keep up the good work guys

The block was simple: I voted on my home pc and my sister tried to vote on her. She got blocked since we're on the same network connection (hence ip address).

I had a hard time placing Kanade in my stats. She had that awful match against Kobato, normalish match against Haruhi and Haruna, unreadable same series matches with Yuri and Yui and totally smashed Kuroneko and Eucliwood. Each different day seemed to bring a different Kanade so a single number doesn't really give even part of the story. In the end, I decided to record Kanade at her best in my stats. It's a number primarily based on her matches with Kuroneko and Eucliwood. Based on this mostly arbitrary choice, Kanade comes out as the character that improved the most in the postseason.

Following her up is Kuroneko. I've said this before but Kuroneko didn't look to hot in the regular season. However, she brought out her best in the post season. Upsetting Eucliwood was no fluke and Kuroneko showed she really was at that level across multiple matches.

The third character that did pretty well for themselves was Akiyama Mio. She had a slow start leading to an early loss to Nagato Yuki. However, she would go on to take down Shana, Azusa and Mikoto. Not a bad job at all.

Shana, Mikoto and Eucliwood end up looking roughly the same as during the regular season. Mikoto was a bit weird. Early on she had some great performances like blasting Yuki and Taiga. After that, she just went back to her regular season self. As a result, those matches are mostly considered just a one time spike and don't affect her final ranking much. Shana's spike against Yuri was closer to the end so it counts a bit more in her stat rating. Eucliwood was fairly consistent across the entire post season. Before the post season, I wasn't sure if my stats were correct in calling Eucliwood to be stronger than everyone in Stella so it's cool to see that my stats were correct in the end.

The character that had the hardest time in the playoffs was Kashiwazaki Sena. Kobato and Sena had back to back matches with Kirino and Sena performed far worse despite sticking closely to Kobato's strength level all year long. Sena was the weakest character in the combined finals so I can see why her fans would want to give up, but she could have tried a bit harder to at least make a match out of her battle with the second weakest.

Postseason woes for the Haruhi fanbase again. Last year was Yuki and this year it was Haruhi that found it difficult to keep up with the other characters. She managed to beat Kobato in the end but it wouldn't have been all that close if Haruhi kept up her regular season strength.

The characters from round 1 of post season were also given stat values but they aren't all that accurate due to the limited data from just a single match. Charlotte ends up ahead of Sena despite directly losing to her but the result may have been different in Elimination 11 after Sena crashed compared to Elimination 1.

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Ah, haven't bothered with Saimoe for the most part this year and enjoyed the fresh air.

Well, congrats to Kanade, although she certainly lacks in personality, she does embody a strong amount of what makes Key-style moe and certainly her VA did a good job as well. Of course, I am sad she won 2:1 over two of her superior counterparts in previous matches , but hey, I guess that's not a surprise either and that's how the cookie crumbles.

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Will the new Rozen Maiden anime revive the RM faction that once wrecked havoc in ISML? I think the answer might be no, but what is your intake? Also, how successful do you believe the Sailor scouts will be here? They should be quite popular in an international sense, but how many of them will be/are ISML voters?

Will the new Rozen Maiden anime revive the RM faction that once wrecked havoc in ISML? I think the answer might be no, but what is your intake? Also, how successful do you believe the Sailor scouts will be here? They should be quite popular in an international sense, but how many of them will be/are ISML voters?

RM faction do have a history of success thus is always a group of great interest and concern in Moe Tournaments. If the new anime is above average in most aspects, I do believe Rozen Maiden faction will rise up and try to capture ISML crown. Still, they might have soured from their previous failure in 2009 playoffs and might not return. As for Sailor Scouts, it is opposite story as they seldom had success in any moe tournaments. The source material has much inherent limitations, the limitations which had prevented them from achieving moe tournament success in the past, thus only drastic changes, which may anger the original series fans the new series hopes to recapture, may change the mindset of moe tournament voters to be more favorable towards them. In short, Sailor Scouts are very unlikely to do well in ISML.

Excellent PV. Character clips matched well with the music. It may be hard to figure out the Top 2 of each group. A couple have at least three who are Top 2 material or deserve to be in the top 32 of each group. Which guy will win this time?